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Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, a Russian general in charge of the country's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, was killed Tuesday by what officials described as a bomb hidden in a scooter outside a Moscow apartment building.

Kirillov had been accused by Kyiv and its Western allies of using chemical weapons in Ukraine.

The general's assistant also was reported killed in the blast, according to Russia's Investigative Committee, a federal law enforcement agency. Investigators and forensic workers were still collecting evidence at the scene, but Russia state media said the bomb, remotely operated, was detonated as Kirillov was leaving the apartment block.

There was no public claim of responsibility for the blast, which damaged the first four floors of the residential building on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow. But media reports in Ukraine, citing the country's domestic security service, known as SBU, suggested Kirillov's killing was a special operation carried out by Kyiv. If that's confirmed, it would be a rare targeted assassination of a high-profile military commander inside Russia.

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Ukraine’s military intelligence and the Pentagon have said that Ukrainian troops have killed and injured a number of North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region.

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, known as GUR, said on Monday that North Korean army units had suffered “significant losses” with “at least 30 soldiers” killed and wounded in the Kursk region, near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorobzha and Martynovka.

“Also in the area of ​​the village of Kurilovka, at least three North Korean servicemen went missing,” the GUR added in a statement posted to its Telegram channel on Monday.

Speaking to journalists in Washington, DC, Pentagon spokesperson Major-General Pat Ryder backed up the Ukrainian Army’s claim, saying that the United States had found “indications” North Korean troops had been “killed and injured” in combat in Kursk.

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TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.

Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance urged the justices to step in before the law's Jan. 19 deadline. A similar plea was filed by content creators who rely on the platform for income and some of TikTok's more than 170 million users in the U.S.

"A modest delay in enforcing the Act will create breathing room for this Court to conduct an orderly review and the new Administration to evaluate this matter — before this vital channel for Americans to communicate with their fellow citizens and the world is closed," lawyers for the companies told the Supreme Court.

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Footage has emerged of a massive explosion in northwestern Syria on Sunday, following an enormous Israeli airstrike.

The munitions depot was targeted as Benjamin Netanyahu's military aims to mitigate the threat from any forces intending to attack Israel after the abrupt end of Bashar al-Assad's rule. The blasts took place in the Tartus region, known for housing several military bases, including one used by Russia's navy.

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